United Nations:
Amidst escalating tension in ties with the US, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday mentioned that disputes amongst nations “need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation” and urged world leaders to eschew “confrontation and exclusion.”
Addressing the higher-level 76th UN General Assembly, President Jinping, through a video hyperlink, mentioned that the world demands to advocate peace, development, equity, justice, democracy, and freedom, which are the typical values of humanity and reject the practice of forming smaller circles or zero-sum games.
“Differences and problems among countries, hardly avoidable, need to be handled through dialogue and cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual respect. One country’s success does not have to mean another country’s failure, and the world is big enough to accommodate common development and progress of all countries,” he mentioned.
Xi Jinping’s comments came hours right after US President Joe Biden mentioned he did not have any intention of beginning a “new Cold War” with China.
The US and China have been locked in a standoff fuelled by key disagreements on difficulties like trade, technologies, Beijing’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea, and human rights. Earlier this year, higher-level talks amongst the Biden administration and Beijing have been fraught with tension – with officials on each sides exchanging sharp rebukes in public.
“We need to pursue dialogue and inclusiveness over confrontation and exclusion. We need to build a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, equity, justice, and win-win cooperation, and do the best we can to expand the convergence of our interests and achieve the biggest synergy possible,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that the world need to increase international governance and practice accurate multilateralism.
“In the world, there is only one international system, i.e. the international system with the United Nations at its core. There is only one international order, i.e. the international order underpinned by international law. There is only one set of rules, i.e. the basic norms governing international relations underpinned by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter,” Xi Jinping mentioned, adding that the UN ought to uphold the banner of accurate multilateralism.
He mentioned the UN ought to serve as the central platform for nations to jointly safeguard universal safety, share development achievements and chart the course for the future of the world.
The United Nations ought to advance, in a balanced manner, work in all the 3 locations of safety, development, and human rights, Xi Jinping mentioned.
Calling on the UN to enhance representation for the creating nations in international affairs, he mentioned the United Nations ought to remain committed to making sure a steady international order, escalating the representation and say of creating nations in international affairs, and taking the lead in advancing democracy and rule of law in international relations.
In an apparent reference to two-decades-old US intervention in Afghanistan which ended last month with the Taliban seizing energy in Kabul, he mentioned military intervention from the outdoors and so-known as democratic transformation entail practically nothing but harm.
China has never ever and will never ever invade or bully other people, or seek hegemony, he mentioned.
“The Chinese people have always celebrated and striven to pursue the vision of peace, amity, and harmony,” he mentioned, adding that China will continue to bring the world new possibilities by way of its new development.
“China is always a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, defender of the international order, and provider of public goods,” Xi mentioned.
The President mentioned that China will firmly oppose any political manoeuvering in international COVID-19 origins tracing and continue to engage in the international science-based tracing of the origins of the coronavirus. The remarks seemed an apparent reference to attempts by the US and EU nations pressing Beijing to permit investigation into the coronavirus origin as it very first surfaced in Wuhan.
China will strive to provide two billion doses of vaccines against coronavirus to the world by the finish of this year, he added.
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